I’m a German/Jewish/Slavic redhead on the doorstep of teaching my own Freshman College Composition classroom at Cal State East Bay. I just finished a teaching internship at Cal State, so this is all new and exciting to me. I’ve had a lot of jobs (mainly waiting tables and subbing) but this will be my first career. What more can I say, I’m a late bloomer.

Trying to balance the creative with the practical
Creatively: I write
Practically: I will be teaching, and I am working on getting published
Ultimately: I want all three worlds to blend together like the perfect Venn diagram (the one with the overlapping circles).

Brain Storming, indulging in paranoid fantasies, allowing my overactive imagination to run wild.

My red hair; after all redheads only make up 2% of the population. Redheaded women take note—we’re a dying breed. Real talk; National Geographic says we face looming extinction, and could very well die out within the next one hundred years! http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/220229/

Music: Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z, The White Stripes, Cage the Elephant, The Black Keys
Movies: Winter’s Bone, American Beauty, The Wrestler, Up in the Air, Little Miss Sunshine
Authors: Lately, a lot of Coming of Age Fiction: David Sedaris, Junot Diaz, Frank Portman, Tim Sandlin, John McNally.
Food: My step-dad was a master chef, so I’ve developed a taste for practically everything. He actually wrote me a cookbook. I’ve tried a few of the recipes with mixed results.

Pencil
Paper
Something to read
Dictionary (at least a spell check)
Someone to share my writing with
Someone to love

Aside from the stuff I'm really good at...
Traveling: Especially through Spain (where I have friends), Germany (where I have family), Ireland (because there is such a large contingent of redheads, and by all indications the people are very welcoming and forthcoming) and Johannesburg (no one would ever forget my name).

It all depends. I go dancing, watch movies, attend plays, go to games, or just keep things mellow and share a beer with a good friend.

I have a tiger’s head tattooed on my chest—over my heart. It symbolizes that I always try to see with my heart.

You feel like we have something in common.
I promise not to bite; unless, of course, you want me to ;-).